A Note on the Friendship Ties of Black Urbanites

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It is the purpose of this research note (1) to present some specific data on the friendship ties of a sample of black urbanites and (2) to stress the need for much additional research, preferably of a systematic and comparative character, on the informal social networks of black Americans residing in urban areas. The findings of this exploratory study—extant, if relatively small-scale and encapsulated friendship networks for most of the respondents—suggest that the recent revision of sociological thinking about the general importance of informal social ties in urban areas might well need to be extended—given further corroborating evidence—to conceptualization of social life in urban black sub-communities.

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